What Happened To Mary Maloney's Murder?

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Mary was surely not ready to spend the rest of her life rotting away in a jail cell. “I’ll have to make this look like it was an accident”, she said to herself. Mary Maloney had officially became a murder and a threat to society. This act of brutality did not faze her one bit. Acting quickly and methodically, Mary decided to put the lamp chops in the oven to cook, to create the allusion that she was making dinner. Then she began to prepare her mastermind plan of how to get away with murder.
“A great way to fool the cops is to set a scene”, she said to herself. “I have to make it look like I wasn’t home, the only person who was is that evil man who was going to divorce me”, she said. Mary Maloney was going to try to get away with killing another human being! “Where should I star?” She said to herself. She went to the front door, opened it, and left. Mary sat inside her car and drove off. She wasn’t trying to outrun the cops, but rather look for places she could use as a spot to calm down and relax herself. Mary pulled up to an old rundown motel on the east side of town. She greeted the manager with kindness, like everything was going about just wonderfully in her life despite her look of anger. She goes inside the room and begins phase 2 her plan.
“The only way I’m going to look convincing to the cops is if I change my
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This would be perfect, no would ever think of a party on Friday night as being unusual. She would tell the cops that Henry had come home from work and he decided to go for a run around the neighborhood. Henry was a very outgoing person who loved the outdoors. “This would be perfect”, she thought. As hours passed by Mary began to add on more and more pieces to her script and make it seem as realistic as possible. As the evening approached Mary had only one thing left to do. She had to get groceries for the fake dinner party that she was

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